Best Mobile Phones for Gaming in India

Made for gamers, offering a premium gaming experience with top-notch hardware and attention to detail. Every element of the smartphone has been decided with gaming in mind. An insanely responsive display, cutting-edge hardware, Air-Triggers, and loud audio, offers an unfair advantage against other players using vanilla smartphones. It’s not that you will get better frame rates from the popular games from this phone, but aiming, shooting and moving is the most responsive on the ROG Phone 3.

The best gaming phone for iOS users, the iPhone 11 offers best bang for the buck when it comes to gamers looking for a uncompromised gaming experience while wanting to not spend that additional premium for the latest and greatest iPhone. The iPhone 11 offer best bang for the buck, with a price tag in the 50K range. iPhone 11 has the best display in terms of touch response, brightness and color accuracy, which is an additional plus for gamers who are very particular about the quality of display, besides the FPS count.

The OnePlus 8 Pro is presently one of the most hardware-rich flagship smartphone you can buy right now. There's the 5G-capable Snapdragon 865 SoC, up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS 3.0 storage. Furthermore, the OxygenOS UI in the smartphone is specially tuned to deliver the maximum resources while gaming. The OnePlus 8 Pro also has a gorgeous display to play on. Measuring 6.78-inches, it's also bright and supports HDR gaming. It's also far more than a gaming phone. The OnePlus 8 Pro offers a quad camera setup that includes two 48MP cameras, a telephoto lens and a colour filter lens and everything is powered by a large 4,500mAh battery that gets topped up by 30W wired and wireless charging. This is hands down the one of the best smartphones you can have for gaming.

Snapdragon 765G is also cut out for gaming, with some of the Snapdragon Elite Gaming features trickling down from the flagship platform. And gaming is something the OnePlus Nord can handle fairly well, in terms of performance. Popular games like PUBG Mobile and COD: Mobile run at 100% stability. And that means, no frame drop. Call of Duty: Mobile ran the best with everything maxed out. The phone clocked 60 FPS with 100 per cent stability and high graphics. A good buy as long as you are fine with a slightly smaller screen in comparison to other Android based gaming smartphones.

The Poco X3 is your best gaming smartphone bet under the 20K mark. The phone runs on the fast, gaming centric Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G processor, which is well supported by a 120Hz refresh rate screen. The large 6.67-inch display is backed by a massive 6000 mAh battery pack, ensuring your gaming sessions aren't abruptly terminated due to low-battery warnings. Besides the gaming cred, the Poco X3 also has a good camera to offer. The X3 comes with a quad camera setup with the star of the show being the 64MP primary camera. A pretty good package under 20K.

The OnePlus 8 series offers a very consistent performance across the board and the best example of that achievement is its gaming performance. The OnePlus 8T sits between the OnePlus 8 Pro and the OnePlus 8. the superior 120 Hz display on the 8T should come handy once games start offering higher FPS compatibility. Besides being a good gamer, the OnePlus 8T is also a balanced high-end smartphone that ticks all the boxes.

Running on the Mediatek Helio G95 processor, this affordable smartphone is a great pick for someone looking to buy a gaming phone that has good performance, 65W fast charging capability and a large 6.5-inch display to enjoy the latest games with an immersive experience. The quad camera setup with a 48MP primary camera also makes it a very capable shooter!

While the 5G bit won't really matter, the iQOO 3 5G is powered by the flagship Snapdragon 865 making it faster than most other Android flagships at present. The new chipset is matched by the latest LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage which makes this device the one to get for power users and gameras. The presence of pressure sensitive shoulder buttons are quite useful in getting those headshots in PUBG Mobile. Needless to say this won't slow down at all. There's also a 48MP quad camera setup at the back and another selfie camera drilled into the display.

The Realme X50 Pro is also a flagship cut out for 2020 with all the right hardware. That includes the Snapdragon 865, a 90Hz refresh rate display and up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB USB 3.0 storage, ensuring top performance during gaming, be it PUBG Mobile or Fortnite. The Realme X50 Pro also rocks a compact, easy-to-hold design and the bezel-less display offers a great gaming experience. We regularly hit peak framerates while playing the popular multiplayer shooters on this smartphone. It's easily one of the best smartphones you can buy for gaming.

The Redmi K20 Pro with the Snapdragon 855 and 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is as good a gaming phone as any other flagship. But it’s edge-to-edge HDR AMOLED display makes games look better than ever while the deep-seated optimisations can peak the frame rates in games to their max capability.